Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-09-08
Jackson, where he had been sentenced for
two years, suicided the other day.

for injury received while riding on tl,eiI
road from Byron Center to Grand Rapids.
Warren Reynolds of Milan has been very
deaf for 80 years. While engaged i'm PRAYER
at camp meeting recently. his hearing was
restored, and he now hears as we'll as ever.
The closing of the mines in the vicinity
of Green and, OntonagOn county, has COM
PEELED large number of miners TO remove,
most OF them going to the Gogebic region.
George Warren, clerk at the Harbor
Point hotel, has disappeared mysteriously,
and as he had been i'll for several weeks
there is suspicion that he has committed
suicide.
State Inspector Hill predicts the salt in
spection in this state the present year Will
exceed that of 1886 fully $50. 900 barrels.
Last year the amount inspected was 3,677,-
257 barrels.
The Lake Superior iron company will
hereafter use desulpherized oil for fuel
and Illuminating gas in their mines. lsh-
peming talks of lighting its streets by the
same process.
David Kennedy. brakeman on the
Thayer lumber company logging road in
Missaukee county, was killed the other
morning while coupling cars. His head
was crushed by projecting logs.
Regents Grosvenor and Spears of the
building committee of regents Of the uni
versity, have awarded the contract for
building the hygenic laboratory to ID, j.
Ross of Ann Arbor, for $50, 1899,
DIR. James Lewis, resident of Niles
since 1885, is dead. DIR. Lewis was a
veteran of the war Of 1872 and went in o
4. 1, So1a,,, 20
ty, n. V, when he was Is years of age.
Rev, John J. Jacobs, pastor of the Pap
list church of Muskegon, has brought suit
against Albert TOwle, prominent mer-
chant of that city for alleged SANDER and
defamation of character, laying damages
at Sl0,0
Daniel Deusler died at his home In Ba-
tavia, Branch county, the other night
aged ~. He was captain of company q.
Fourth Michigan cavalry, which captured
the rebel president, Jefferson Davis, near
AbbeyilIe, Ga, in April, 'd5.
Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager
has issued orders relative TO the restora-
ton to the public domain of the indemnity
land held for tire Marquette, EoughtOn q
Ontonagon railroad company in Michigan.
The amount of land is 257, 455.
John Ryan of Kalamazoo, aged 10, went
hunting with two companions and when
returning, a Tiie in the hands of one of
them went oil and the ball passed through
Ryan's neck causing instant death. The
boys were walking on the railroad track
and Ryan was two 70 Is ahead.
Geo. Irish, living near Lapeer, started
for home the other night, late, in an in
I'll A hatt 10
| of town he was struck by a freight of the
Detroit & Bay City railroad and had both
| legs broken in two places and was other
| wise injured. He lived until O'Clock the
next morning.
Lyman G. Curtis, one of the victims of
| the boiler explosion near Flint, has since
died. II is probable that suits will be
commenced against the owner of the boiler
to recover damages for the injuries sus
tanned by the victims of the disaster, Oh
the ground that the explosion was the re-
suit of carelessueSs.
Charles Smith, laborer on GUNNER s
| logging road. near Cadillac, attempted tC
| trip a dump car on the construction train,
| but fell under tie wheels, which crushed
both his legs above the ankles. They
were amputated tie next day but he did
not survive the operation. He was O
| Swede, IS years old. and unmarried.
A widower named Whaley returned e
| his house in Waldron, near Hudson, after
q spree and gave something which he
called worm medicine to his two young
| girls, also swallowing some himself. The
| youngest child died. The father and re-
naming girl recovered through the efforts
of physician. Whaley was arrested
The Michigan state horticultural society
will make its usual exhibit at the state
fair, in Jackson September 1924.
Arrangements are about completed through
which there are to lie displays Of fruits
from Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Nebraska and California, a wide range
Of exhibits is also promised from Michi-
gan.
Bay City will have a big demonstration
in October 1t is expected that $500 vet
Grams of Northeastern Michigan, 1900
state fireman and and 200 American
whCelmen will be present, meeting of
the three associations being held there
Oct. Al. Five hundred tents have been
requested from the state for the veterans.
The triple prizes foot up 81, 500.
The widow of Joshua Tuthill has COM
menced suit at East Saginaw to recover
IS, 600 from the Northwestern masonic aid
association of Chicago for a policy in that
sum upon her husbands life. The COM
pany claims an assesSmen during the de-
ceased's last illness was not paid. The
widow claims that no notification that the
money was due was made. The policy
run ten years.
The fear expressed by the railroads that
the Interstate law would cripple their
business seems not to be borne out by
facts. The earnings for the Michigan
roads for June were sc, 500, 7O2 10, an in.
crease of Ss05,4S5 Sc over the correspond
ing month of 1886. The total earnings
for the first half of 1887 amount to $780,
| 321, 140 81, an increase over the cores
ponding period of last year of S5,17O,-
GEO rs. The percentage of increase is
1850.
Sallie IL. Angney of Columbia, the di-
vorced wife Of Jacob Il. Angney, now in
Jail at Washington, ID. c., and formerly OF
Detroit, for shooting his brother-in-law,
John III. Wimot, has petitloned the court
in Lancaster, Pa, to set aside the divorce.
1t is alleged that the divorce was obtained
by fraud and collision. The attorney fol-
Angney denies the allegations and the
matter will he argued in September. Ang-
ney last year married Detroit woman
who is worth $3.50, 900.
Matthias Theriatt, young French
Canadian, saved his money number OF
years and buried it In gold under log
near Iron River, where he had been work
ing. lie was to have been married to a
girl in Ishpeming recently, but was taken
suddenly sick the day before the wedding
was to have taken place, and died In the
evening. With his last breath he told his
affianced brides sister about the money,
| but died before he described the exact 10